AK Press fire relief

AK Press, publisher of the just-out Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, suffered a disastrous fire last weekend. Details about the fire and how to help them recover are in this e-mail blast:

Dear Friends,

In the early morning of March 21, the building behind ours caught fire. Two people lost their lives. The fire spread to the mixed-use warehouse building we share with 1984 Printing and 30+ residents. Everyone in our building got out safely, but several units were completely destroyed. There was extensive water and smoke damage to other units, including the ones occupied by AK Press and our neighbors at 1984 Printing.

Yesterday, we got more bad news when the City of Oakland red-tagged our building, which prohibits us from occupying it. We don’t know how long this will last, but it obviously means we can’t conduct business as usual. We are hopeful that we can recover from this tragedy but we will need your help to get through it, and to support our neighbors who have also suffered major losses.

If you can, please consider a donation to our Fire Relief Fund. If you’re not in the position to donate, please help us by sharing the campaign. We will split all contributions to this fund with 1984 Printing and our neighbors affected by the fire, and we will all be very grateful for whatever you can give.

We’ll keep you all posted as we struggle through this awful mess. Thank you all, so much, for your support thus far—we can’t tell you how much it means.